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WorksheetsA12[AHS]/54-Public Health Promotion — LO1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Socioeconomic differences: How does cost affect health choices, even in a country with strong healthcare services?
Higher costs can limit access to healthy food, time and resources for exercise, and wellbeing supports, leading to poorer health choices.
Higher costs consistently improve health choices by increasing motivation to seek services.
Cost has little to no impact on health choices when healthcare services are strong.
Strong healthcare services eliminate all cost-related barriers, so cost does not affect health choices.
Geographic differences: How might access differ between a major urban area and a smaller community?
Urban areas typically have shorter travel times, more transport options, and a wider range of local health services; smaller communities may face longer travel, limited transport, and fewer local services.
Access is identical in urban and small communities because national policy standardizes service distribution.
Smaller communities always have better access due to stronger social cohesion and local networks.
Urban areas always have worse access because services are concentrated in small towns.
Age-related inequalities: Why is prevention still relevant for older adults?
Older adults have higher chronic disease risk and may face mobility barriers and isolation, so prevention helps reduce risk and maintain health.
Prevention is unnecessary for older adults because age alone determines health outcomes.
Prevention only benefits children and young adults, not older adults.
Prevention replaces clinical care entirely for older adults, making treatment unnecessary.
Disability-related disparities: What makes a service accessible beyond ramps and lifts?
Accessibility also requires communication access, stigma-free interactions, and easy service navigation in addition to physical features.
Only the presence of ramps and lifts determines accessibility.
Accessibility relies solely on specialized medical equipment and does not involve communication or navigation.
Accessibility is mainly about cost and does not relate to communication or service navigation.
Impact of health inequalities: Which outcome is explicitly identified as a consequence of health inequalities?
Lower long-term healthcare cost and reduced demand
Higher avoidable illness and complications
Elimination of pressure on hospitals
Immediate cure of chronic diseases
Primary health care: Which description best reflects what primary health care (PHC) refers to?
Specialist, hospital-based acute care
First-contact, accessible, community-based health services
Emergency surgical services only
National-level policy making
Primary health care examples: Which service is listed as an example of PHC (Primary Health Care)?
Neurosurgery units
Intensive care wards
Community clinics
Organ transplant centers
Relationship between public health and PHC: Which activity is part of PHC (Primary Health Care) acting as the "delivery arm" of public health?
Conducting international trade negotiations
Vaccination and health education delivery
Designing new hospital architecture
Funding private insurance plans
PHC (Primary Health Care) role in early detection: Which function illustrates PHC’s role in early detection for public health priorities?
Screening and risk assessment
Luxury inpatient services
Cosmetic procedures
Travel visa approvals
UAE prevention strategies: Which statement reflects the role of PHC (Primary Health Care) in UAE prevention strategies?
Screening and early detection are delivered only in tertiary hospitals
Screening and early detection initiatives are delivered through community and clinic settings
Prevention depends exclusively on private clinics with no reporting
Reporting is discouraged to protect privacy
Health protection approaches: Which threat is listed as a focus of health protection?
Fashion trends
Environmental hazards
Tax compliance
Sports injuries only
Surveillance purpose: What is a stated purpose of surveillance (monitoring and early warning)?
To replace clinical diagnosis
To monitor disease trends and detect unusual patterns early
To eliminate the need for vaccines
To limit reporting to annual cycles only
Immunisation (population protection): Which statement captures a key reason immunisation is a cornerstone of protection?
It prevents illness in individuals and reduces spread in communities
It eliminates the need for surveillance
It is only useful during outbreaks
It protects only those already ill
Outbreak control steps: Which activity is included in outbreak control?
Case identification and isolation/management
Closing all clinics permanently
Halting public communication
Avoiding contact tracing
Incidence (new cases): What question does incidence help answer?
What is the lifetime risk for one individual?
Is this problem growing?
Which hospital wing is most expensive?
How many clinicians are on duty today?
